When is Ermogenis’s name day?

Ermogenis can be celebrated on 3 feasts in the Orthodox calendar. People keep the feast of the saint they were named for, or the one their family has always kept.

Every feast on which Ermogenis is celebrated

The saints behind the name

• Hermogenes of Moscow

  May 12, Hierarch, Ερμογένης Μόσχας

  Hermogenes was Metropolitan of Kazan before being chosen Patriarch of Moscow in 1606 during the Time of Troubles. When Polish forces occupied Moscow, he refused to endorse the foreign claimant and sent letters calling the Russian people to rise in defense of Orthodoxy.

  Name days: Ermogenis, Hermogenes

• Evodos, Kallisti and Hermogenes

  September 1, Martyr, Εύοδος, Καλλίστη και Ερμογένης

  The holy martyrs Evodos, Kallisti and Hermogenes were siblings who confessed Christ at Nicomedia during the persecutions of the early fourth century. Refusing to offer sacrifice to idols, they were condemned and beheaded together.

  Name days: Evodos, Hermogenes, Ermogenis, Kallisti, Callista, Callisti

• Hermogenes the Hieromartyr

  October 5, Hierarch, Ερμογένης

  Hermogenes is commemorated in the Synaxarion as a hieromartyr and wonderworker who confessed Christ and was put to death for the faith. Tradition relates that he ended his martyrdom by fire.

  Name days: Ermogenis, Hermogenes, Ermogenes

Also celebrating with Ermogenis

These names share the feast, many of them other forms of the same name:

Hermogenes, Evodos, Kallisti, Callista, Callisti, Ermogenes

What to say on a name day

The Greek wish is Χρόνια Πολλά (Chronia Polla), “many years.” A call or a short message on the day is what people remember. See name day wishes you can send and what a name day is.